Spotify Wrapped 2024: Can the Standard staff guess the most streamed artist, album and song?

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00:00This is genuinely the most basic card anyone is ever going to have on Spotify Wrapped.

00:04Yeah, mmm, this is gay.

00:06So now I have the envelope with the most listened to artist, song and album globally.

00:12Top artist of the year.

00:14I feel like it's probably Taylor Swift, even though I don't really want it to be.

00:18It will obviously be Taylor Swift.

00:20I'm closely tied with Billie Eilish, who I guess the girlies also like.

00:24I'm assuming it's going to be Taylor Swift. I can't see how it would be anyone else.

00:27I wouldn't want it to be, but it could be Taylor Swift.

00:29Top song of the year, maybe...

00:32Apple?

00:33Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter. I feel like that song was everywhere.

00:36It's going to be something Sabrina Carpenter. Maybe Espresso.

00:40Album of the year... I'm going to say B.R.A.P, because I want it to be B.R.A.P.

00:44So I'm going to manifest it.

00:45Maybe Beyonce's album, her country album.

00:47B.R.A.P. by Charli XCX.

00:48Maybe Bob, Bob, Bolly Nosser.

00:50What's the Billie Eilish one called? Or Hit Me Hard, Soft.

00:54That one.

00:55OK, let's see.

00:56Oh! OK. Oh!

00:59Yeah, I was dead on. Taylor Swift, most streamed artist.

01:02Taylor Swift. Expected.

01:04Weirdly, The Weeknd underneath, I did not expect.

01:06Did he have a new album? I missed that.

01:08I think I was just too creeped out by The Idol.

01:11Oh, I was really right, actually.

01:12Espresso, most streamed song.

01:14Oh, my God, I got Espresso right.

01:16Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter. I totally forgot about that.

01:19Album was Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department.

01:21And Beyonce was not even on that list, but we'll ignore that

01:24because I got the first two right, so it's amazing.

01:26Tortured Poets Department, that's what it's called.

01:29My review of that would be unengaging.

01:31I mean, I'm sad that B.R.A.P. isn't on here,

01:33but I'm also not surprised because I feel like Taylor Swift.

01:37She's just a curse.

01:38OK, so now I guess I'm going to open up and see

01:41what my most listened to artists are for this year.

01:44I actually do think this will be quite embarrassing for me.

01:47My predictions are that it's going to be really, really basic

01:49and it's not going to be cool whatsoever.

01:52OK, here we go.

01:53Let's see. Yeah.

01:55First one is Meghan Trainor.

01:56I wouldn't describe it as good music at all, but catchy.

02:00My first artist was Taylor Swift.

02:02Second was Ariana Grande.

02:04Third was Sabrina Carpenter.

02:05Fourth was Billie Eilish and fifth was Charli XCX.

02:08So it quite literally does not get any more basic than that.

02:10Three, Olivia Rodrigo.

02:12Now, I actually do have a real guilty soft spot for her,

02:15but again, I feel slightly embarrassed about...

02:18Actually, I feel really embarrassed about that.

02:19Yeah, nothing cool.

02:20Everything good, I will stand by that, but nothing cool.

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